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WgAR OVERALLS TO OPPOSE H. C. L Newspapers Decline to Cease Publication of News of Movement as Requested. Birmingham, Ala.. April 12.?The Birmingham Overall club, with a membership of 3,000 pledged to wear overalls until clothing prices come down, was formally organized tonight at a meeting in the city court. Earlier in the day Birmingham newspapers declined to comply with the request of a retail clothing committee to cease publication of news items about overall clubs. The merchants claimed 1 * ??? irtini'M/l Tneir Dusincss was uciu;; u>jv?t v%.. Alvin Douglass, attorney, was elected chairman and Theodore: Lamar, originator of the overall club ^_ plan, was made secretary. N Friday, April 1G, was set as the day ; o'rs which every member of the club . is^ to appear on the streets clad in overalls and a solemn pledge was taken that the denims will be worn until the price of clothing "hits the toboggan." i Organizations which joined the -club in a body included city hall em- j xilovees, court house attaches, Louis? viile and Nashville, Southern Ala-! bama. Great Southern and Illinois; Central railroad employees, Birmingham Street Car company employees; and the Bessemer fire department. Membership lists had been circu-; lated in the larger mercantile estab-; lishments of the city, and those in . charge of the work reported enroll-1 ments of 100 per cent. Bitter attacks upon the cost of clothing marked the meeting, which ! was attended by men in eveiV walk J of life. "The people have gone on strike against profiteering in clothes,"-' said Mr. Lamar.- j1 - Telegrams from all parts of the '-country were read bv Secretary: * 3 ^ Lamar indorsing the movement and ~vasking for information as to the best j' means of organizing clubs. j Qualification for membership con-!: sists simply in the ownership of one p pair of overalls. There are no dues.!; Members are obligated to wear over- j -til]* whilp at work, and are urged to ;1 ilo business only with other men who j1 wear overalls. While blue denims i < were recommended, other kinds may!( be worn. iJ Secretary Lamar stated he had in-! quired into the prices of overalls and , found out that the average cost at; the present time for '"pants" and ! . jumper is $3. "If I hear of anybody trying to; 1 profiteer in overalls, I will prosecute ' them myself," said Mr. Lamar, who is j1 a lawyer as well as a business man. i{ h Ashburn, Ga., April 12.?Jud<re R. t1 L. Tipton announced today that he1 would wear overalls when he con-j1 venes city court Wednesday. Prac- j tically all of the lawyers of this town i belong: to the overall club. t ' ) 1 Macon, Ga., April 612.?The civil j1 service commission today took under : advisemen* a request from police j x + fViftm to WPflr I and nremen 10 pcimu wtm w ? . overalls while on dutv. I CAROLINA STUDENTS FORM OVERALL CLUB j i " University Glee Club and Varsity ; Nine Planning to Make Trips in Blue Denim. The State, 14th. The preliminary steps in the organ-; ization of an overall club to include ; the over 300 students at tne univer-j * sity of South Carolina were taken; .yesterday when such a club was in- j Kiorsed by the student body and a ! . ommittee appointed to draw up the \ --articles of agreement under which I every member of the club pledges I "himself to wear overalls until the; price of clothing again becomes! "reasonable." The motion favoring j, the organization of such a club was j passed without objection at the meet- j ing of the student body yesterday j . morning, tkr committee to make its 1 report and the final organization to! be completed at a similar meeting to 'lay. ^ i The only exceptions contemplated ; in the preliminary outline of the irticles c?f agreement will permit the students to wear ordinary clot lies on | Sunday to church and also when mak-1 in<r the "social calls so necessary to j student life." Even these exceptions j seem likely to be omitted from the ( i final draft since they might defeat I the purpose of the organization oy j forcing the student to buy a newsuit under present conditions. The J committee is also conferring with 1 Oapt. \V. E. Duvall to include the) members of the reserve officers' j training corps unit in the club.! i These include the large majority of < the members of the freshmen and j sophomore classes, who are required ] by the university rules to take mili- j tary training and are. therefore, j wearing the conventional khaki in-: stead of the ''civilian clothes" whir'n : the other students are now planning i to discard. ! Among the especially unique features of the club as planned will be the discarding of the conventional liv tho university glee dub and quartet in its coming tour of the state in favor of the official "blue denim." The varsity baseball team is also planning to wear the overalls on its tour, should the club be organized as sketched yesterday. Members of the committee, which is to make all arrangements for the formation of the clubs, are: O. C. Blackmon, B. Poliakotf and Hugh Hanna. j f PICKENS IN OVERALLS i Two Hundred Men Join in Movement. I The State. Greenville, April 13.?With 200 signed up as members and every clothing merchant in town includedj in this number, the men of Pickens,! the county seat of Pickens county,)' have agreed to appear rrmay mum-, i lg in overalls and to wear overalls; rntil the price of clothing is con-J j-iderably reduced. F. B. Clayton is the leader of the , movement in Pickens, he having cir- j culated a petition today. The organ- j i.-'.ation of the overalls club is to be ; perfected before Friday. the suDerintendent's , tvc ... A office and other departments of the Southern railway in Greenville, in a j large grocery and drug store today j signed petitions to "Don the denims" j for the same reasons as those prompt- j ing the Pickens citizens to take this > action. Will Don Denims. New Orleans, April 13.?Petitions; I f y tonight among, wet i* ucinji students of Tulane university and,1 \ leaders in the overall wearing move- j ment predicted within a few days: practically the entire student body j tvi! 1 have ''donned the denims." About; 50 employee? of the Western Union . and Interstate Electric company of- j fices appeared for work today in over- j alls and jumpers. An overalls organ- i ization was being formed among the j operators and a large percentage of j the traffic department had signed an i agreement tonight to fight the high cost of clothing along the lines j adopted in Birmingham. T.ennessee Students Join. Knoxville, April 13.?University of! rennessee students are organizing ] for a battle against "high cost of iiving." Several boys attended class ?s attired in overalls, and C apt. w . i 0. Lowe, president of the All Student :*lub, requested students to prepare olans for a practical program which the institution can take up as its part 3f the nationwide effort to lower prices of wearing apparel. 1 I Blackburg, #Va., April 13.?At a mass meeting of citizens here today the "Teddy Bear" Overall club was organized and T. Cary Johnson of Richmond was elected president. The members pledged themselves to ap- j pear in overalls on the morning of April 19 and wear them "until prices of clothing come down." Mayor Dave Stanger appeared in the mayor's court today in overalls. Atlanta, April 13.?Atlantans are j called upon to organize an overall) club to combat the high cost of clothing in a large display advertisement by John A. Manget, chairman of the Georgia Fair Price commission, which will be published here tomorrow. Roanoke, Va., 'April 13.?Three j overall clubs and an apron club were formed tonight by Roanoke citizens at four different mass meetings. 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